Emily and I went to get some homeschool supplies today. We have new notebooks, folders, binders, pencils, sharpener, erasers, stickers, note cards, highlighters, and of course an Angry Birds pencil topper :) I have a teacher's notebook all clean and new, waiting for my plans to be laid out in ink!
Seeing as we are on the waiting list for the online public school, I am hitting all of the online curriculum, books, links, freebies, and ideas that I can to put together a very eclectic, CM-ish first semester of 7th grade.
I am also planning our first day of NOT back to school! The Detroit Institute of Art has just passed three county millages so we will now be able to go for free! I am SO happy about this! So I am thinking of having a day of art. Maybe draw some of the traditional art, then find something beautiful in the not-so beautiful areas of Detroit with their boarded up windows, broken glass in the street, piled-high tires in driveways, and crumbling brick facades. Finally I think a picnic in the park on the river - beauty in nature. They are all just ideas tumbling around in my head right now - so I will need to fine tune!
Another thing that Em has really become independent about is her musical taste. She prefers music that is sung by females, fun, upbeat, and danceable. So I want to find some Christian music that will draw her in so that I am not having to constantly listen to the words of all the songs she likes!
I decided to use Complete Curriculum for her core subjects of math, science, social studies, and language arts. We'll be starting out with Beautiful Girlhood, using Pearables for home economics, and reading daily devotions, starting in Matthew. I'll be following Ambleside for art, music (composers & hymns), current events, and poetry. Old Fashioned Education for their literature recommendations which can be read online and biographies. For French I'm using a few different websites - we are still just at the learning words stage. Last year third semester we began learning numbers, colors, family names, and a few others. We'll continue from there. Oh! And for nature study I'm following along with The Handbook of Nature Study blog with the book by Anna Comstock.
I plan to use the notebooking approach in several subjects. We'll continue our nature journals, book of centuries, and start new ones for other subjects.
The first book of the year will be Ann of Green Gables. I read this to Em several years ago, but now I am going to have her read the series herself. I hope she enjoys it as much as I did, reading it just a few years ago as an adult.
I think that's about it! I'm trying to get it all written down in that new teacher's journal of mine! Hopefully I'll have the first few weeks hammered out by the time school starts on the 4th!
Sherry
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